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Sunday, October 08, 2017

Live Twittervism: Illinois Democractic Gubernatorial Debate at the Chicago Teacher's Union

I had originally planned on re-posting here a Twitter thread/Facebook post that I still intend on posting here some day, seeing as how I'm still busy focusing on reading open submissions to Uncanny Magazine and I didn't think today would be predictable enough to publish a blog post that would satisfy me. Seeing as how I Live Tweeted today the debate between the Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidates, I think I can better serve at least my Illinois audience by re-posting them here. The rest of my audience might enjoy these posts, too.

In full disclosure: In case you don't know, I support Ameya Pawar. This thread does favor him. I may not show as much seriousness about the other candidates. Also, as much I tried to get verbatim quotes, I didn't meet with 100% accuracy or get as many quotes as covered by the whole debate. Where I could, I put double quoted what I believe are as exact quotes as I could take and left summarized words without quotes.

Also I want the best candidate to win, and I don't want Bruce Rauner to stay in office. With that in mind, I have included some quotes and summaries about some of the other candidates who said things that I agree with. I also did not include all the candidates in this transcription. I haven't really heard of them before today or before an article I read the other day about how they were willing to work with Amazon to get a new headquarters into Illinois. It's still early in the race, so I can't say whether they have a serious chance or not, but most of the candidates I mention in this stream already have name recognition to me, so I see them as the serious contenders at this point.

All that said, here we go! It starts with Facebook post that apparently didn't make it to Twitter:

Ameya Pawar campaign showed up to debate with a bang! Marched w/ a drum corp. #PawartothePeople!


















UPDATE: Just heard a clip of Pawar on NPR. He made a point to say in another portion that he made it as far as he did because of his community.

















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